Migration of Legacy Systems to Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is the dynamic provisioning of physical and virtual resources as services offering by providers, to optimize performance and utilization of their resources. Consumers contract Cloud services and negotiate service level agreements. Some consumers plan to migrate functionality of their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Zalazar, Ana Sofía, Gonnet, Silvio M., Leone, Horacio P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/135166
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/135166
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Informáticas
Cloud computing
Legacy Systems
Migration
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Sumario:Cloud Computing is the dynamic provisioning of physical and virtual resources as services offering by providers, to optimize performance and utilization of their resources. Consumers contract Cloud services and negotiate service level agreements. Some consumers plan to migrate functionality of their legacy systems to Cloud Computing, to minimize investment on their own infrastructure and to obtain new software solutions that rapidly adapt to changes in the system environment. Therefore, the contribution of this work is to classify different types of migration of legacy systems to Cloud Computing, according to the characteristics of the applications and the deployment models of Cloud Computing. Thus, a workflow for functionality migration is proposed, based on the experience in system conversion projects and the analyzed characteristics of Cloud environments. Finally, some security risks are evaluated in the migration process and some recommendations are listed.